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I don't believe I always read to escape the situation I was trapped in. The life I was living. The horrid reality.  I believe the books offered me hope, and a glimpse of normality. That my own life was much more of a bizarre fiction than what any of the protagonists encountered.

Me

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shoutout to people who cant/wont turn in their abusers because

they dont have proof of abuse

abusers were upstanding members of society

their abuse was legal

no one believes them

their abusers are old, dead, disabled, ill, or on their deathbed

their abusers are family members

they cant remember details of abuse

they didnt uncover abuse until later in life

they were abused by organizations

they dont know the names of thier abusers

theyve been threatened into staying quiet

they arent mentally stable enough to endure the investigation

and whatever other reason. people dont have to turn in their abusers for their abuse to be legitimate. so many of us cant prove what happened to us and are only left with the disorders that came with the horror we dealt with growing up.

it makes me sad that im seeing so many trauma survivors feel that they have to justify not taking abusers to court. some of us cant, some of us shouldnt, and some of us wont. please respect all survivors regardless of how they approach legal justice over abuse.

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"Never again shall I see your face, hear your voice, be close to you. And I couldn't be more happy."

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chiori.m.m

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Give me space.

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“Hehe…ｐｕｐｐｉｅｓ“ 

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You can recognize abusers simply by the fact that they will always demand their feelings to be in the center of everything. Every event, action and word is relevant only by how it made them feel. What they’re doing to you is defined by how they felt while they were doing it, even how you should react becomes defined by how they feel you should. 

Being around abusers will make you feel small, your feelings irrelevant, silly, not worth mentioning, even stupid and wrong, because how could you feel something that isn’t convenient to the abuser? How could you stupidly develop your whole inner world of thoughts and emotions when the abuser doesn’t even care that you’re a person? For them it’s almost like you don’t exist, except in the narrow frame of what they want from you. 

If you start feeling like you don’t matter, like your thoughts and feelings are out of place, wrong, forbidden to express, that you would only humiliate yourself by speaking your mind, know that this is not normal. No human should make you feel this way. You are equally important as every single human being on this planet, and nobody’s feelings should take up so much space or importance that yours should shrink to make space. 

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Reblog if you were born before 1985!

I’m just curious how many other “ancient” X-Files Tumblr-ino’s there are out there!

Here’s us on Tumblr:

Here’s us in real life:

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“We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.”

—

Carl Sagan 

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Since the science march is coming up this weekend, here is my piece for this year.

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"The brave face you carry, how you hold yourself up. I admire you. "

Me

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“That heartbreaking moment when you realize the ‘love’ you are used to, is abuse.”

— Trauma Youth

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Many survivors struggle to believe the abuse happened. They don’t want to believe it. It’s too painful to think about. They don’t want to accuse…or face the terrible loss involved in realizing “a loved one” hurt them; they don’t want to rock the boat.

Laura Davis